THE EFFECT OF IN-SERVICE TEACHERS ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCES OF BASIC SCIENCE STUDENT
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Background to the study
In-service Teachers refers to teacher involves schooling and working at the same time. An in-service program is a professional training or staff development effort, where professionals are trained and discuss their work with others in their peer group. It is a key component of continuing medical education for physicians, pharmacists, and other medical professionals. It is also common among public servants including educators and public safety officials.
In-service program also refers to some programs offered to enlisted members of the military while they are in service. In-service programs also refers to educators, where they discuss methods and cases and workloads. The effect of in-service education to the teacher cannot be over emphasized; this is more so when one considers the need to grapple with new trends in raiding techniques and the dynamic nature of knowledge as it affect the subject matter to be taught to learners.
There are various ways by which in-service could organize education for teacher’s instructional effectiveness. These include organizing refresher courses and school plant level. The importance of teachers cannot be over stressed. This is because teachers play a number of roles. Specifically, teachers has been referred to by Oyedeji (2004) as an agent of innovation. For meaningful innovations, teachers’ academic qualification is very important. This is because teacher education is a very complex enterprise. The complexity arises as a result of several factors which include determination of what effective teachers are, teachers are expected to fulfil a variety of roles, some common to all teachers, others uniquely related to certain kinds of environments of students or subject matter. Added to this, is the fact that teacher education involves the training of professionals who will educate students in future. Despite the complexity in the field of teacher education, one cannot over-emphasize the importance of academic training of teachers of all categories. This is because the efficiency of any institution depends on the academic competence of the teaching staff since no educational system can rise above the quality of its teachers (FGN, 2001, p. 38).
basic science is teaching of science in a way to present scientific ideas as a unified whole (Ajao, 1996). It is a subject that comprises of biology, chemistry, physics and partly any other science related subject while computer science is a subject that has more relationship with basic science than any other subject. basic science is an amalgamated course designed to show unity, wholeness and interrelationship of the distinct that make up science (Daudu, 2005). basic science syllabus is simply a collection of topic from single science (Abba, 2003). The expectation is that students combining physics with basic science should be able to do better than those combining with computer since some of the things learnt in basic science are in physics. However, this study aims at examining the effect of in-service teachers on the academic performances of basic science student.
1.2 Statement of the problem
In-service teachers was set up as a result of government pronouncement that by the year (2000) the least qualification of teacher in primary school will be (NCE) Nigeria certificate in education. It was because of this that every teacher want to obtain this certificate and in order to get it, many teachers are attending in-service teaching. Due to some problems, not all teachers can go in for regular courses; consequently, there is need for them to merge courses in the in-service teachers programme.
Several studies have been conducted in developed countries on the impact of staff development on their productivities. In Nigeria only few studies have been carried out on teacher’s in-service training. For example a study conducted by Peretomode and Chukwuma (2007) covered institutions of higher learning and the result showed that a significant relationship existed between manpower development and lecturers’ productivity. Udofia and Ikpe (2012) study on in-service training and teachers’ attitude to work covered private schools in Cross Rivers State of Nigeria. In Benue state, Kwande local government area in particular, there is limited study on teachers’ in-service training. This study attempted to fill this gap by examining the relationship between in-service training, teachers’ teaching effectiveness and academic performance of students.
1.3 Purpose of the Study
This study focused on teachers’ in-service training and their teaching effectiveness and academic performance of students. Specifically, the study intend to:
- Determine the usefulness of the in-service training programmes provided the teachers
- Determine the benefits of teachers’ participation in in-service training on their teaching effectiveness
- Establish if there is any difference in mean scores of teachers’ teaching effectiveness before and after in-service training.
- Find out if there is any difference in mean scores of teaching effectiveness of male and female teachers who participated in in-service training programme.
- Establish if there is any significant relationship between in-service training and teaching effectiveness of teachers.
- Establish if there is any significant relationship between teachers’ in-service training and student academic performance
1.4 Research Questions
The study is guided by five research questions
- How do teachers perceive the usefulness of the topics covered during in-service training workshops they participated in?
- What are the perceived benefits of teachers’ participation in in-service training workshops on their teaching effectiveness?
- What is the difference in mean scores of teachers’ teaching effectiveness before and after inservice training workshops?
- What is the difference in mean scores of teaching effectiveness of male and female teachers after in-service training workshops?
- What is the rate of percentage scores of students’ performance in the four subjects before and after their teachers’ in-service training?
1.5 Hypotheses
Three hypotheses are formulated and tested in this study:
- There is no significant difference between the teaching effectiveness of teachers before participating in in-service training workshops and after participating in in-service training workshops.
- There is no significant relationship between in-service training and teachers’ teaching effectiveness.
- There is no significant relationship between teachers’ in-service training and academic performance of students.
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